It seems 2024 truly is the year of Wayland on the Linux desktop huh? Even Canonical are now planning to have it by default for NVIDIA for Ubuntu 24.10. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
Pokemon fans are facing a bit of a dilemma right now. With the end of Nintendo 3DS online features and Nintendo's urging of players to transfer their catches off the platform, a very specific and special kind of pokemon are set to lose their quirks when they make the jump over to Pokemon Home. These pokemon are totem variants! These Sun and Moon exclusive creatures are notable for two main reasons: they're larger than usual and come with enhanced stats. These were a key feature in the Sun and Moon generation of Pokemon and made sense as part of its stories. There were twelve in total that you could grab, and they made for interesting, cool collectables for Pokemon players. However, when you try to transfer these totem pokemon off the 3DS via the Pokemon Bank, and onto Pokemon Home (a modern and current pokemon storage app that's being pushed by Nintendo right now), these totem pokemon lose their increased size and stats, leaving them as regular versions rather than special variants. Read more View the full article
G2 Esports had a valiant run at Mid-Season Invitational 2024. After sweeping PSG Talon and Top Esports, they were defeated by T1 and finished fourth. But, despite not reaching the podium, one of their players finished the event in third place in terms of KDA. Surprisingly, it’s not one of the G2 carries, but their jungler Yike, who climbed all the way to third place in KDA ratings. He finished the tournament with a 5.6 KDA score, according to League of Legends stat site, Oracle’s Elixir. View the full article
Wine 9.9 was released Friday as the latest development release for the Windows compatibility layer to run more apps and games on Linux. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
It’s not too long now until Wuthering Waves becomes available for the 30+ million pre-registrants to ***** into, but the Wuthering Waves release times can be a tad confusing, depending on where you live. Fortunately, while waiting for developer, Kuro Game, to launch the latest gacha RPG to rival Genshin Impact, one content creator has detailed the exact time players can expect to access the game, including when you can pre-load it. Wuthering Waves features characters known as Resonators, who - as is usually the case in these games - are trying to tirelessly save their home from the looming threat of danger and destruction. Combat looks to be pretty satisfying, and I don’t know about you, but I’m keen to see what some of these monstrous bosses look like on launch… Either way, here’s the Wuthering Waves release times for every region, so you know exactly when you can expect to start playing the RPG. While the release date for Wuthering Waves is listed as 22 May on the game’s official X account (formerly Twitter), most players can expect to actually be able to play the game from 23 May. Read more View the full article
After Fallout 4's next-gen update forced its creators to abandon their planned release date of April 23, Fallout: London has been left in what's felt like a bit of a purgatory. Behind the scenes, however, the modders have been working very hard to get it ready to release in a form that'll work with these latest changes to Fallout 4. Thankfully, it sounds like Bethesda's latest tweaks won't cause too much of a hold-up. If you're out of the loop, Fallout: London's a full conversion mod for Fallout 4 that's set to let us explore a post-apocalytic version of the English capital, complete with fresh factions and quests. We've been getting regular updates from the team behind it over the past couple of years, and now things are slotting in place to finally let us take to the streets of London, whenever those streets are deemed 100% ready. Speaking to TheGamer on the same day the second part to Fallout 4's next-gen update dropped, Fallout: London project lead, Dean 'Prilladog' Carter seemed to outline that he didn't think it'd pose too much of a hurdle for the mod - at least in comparision to the much heftier first part of the update. Read more View the full article
Diablo 4 players have praised a major change introduced in the season four update for providing a new lease of life to the title. Blizzard’s latest entry in the long-running series launched in June 2023 to great fanfare, but Diablo 4 has struggled to retain players in the long run despite introducing new seasonal content and big changes. View the full article
An Elden Ring fan discovered that their mother bought a poster of Ranni the Witch despite the parent not knowing anything about the game. A major expansion for the critically acclaimed title is set to drop very soon. View the full article
Marvel is seemingly going for broke in the gaming world with a host of upcoming releases, and rumors are circulating regarding a title closely tied to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Fans of Marvel have been treated well recently, with the exceptional Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 in 2023, the first alpha ******* for Marvel Rivals, and a leaked Fortnite roadmap teasing a new crossover event in Chapter Five, season four. View the full article
Ghost of Tsushima might have had a slightly slower start than **** of War on PC, but over the weekend it took the top spot for PlayStation's biggest PC launch. Sony has slowly but surely been bringing some of its biggest names to PC over the past few years, and **** of War has kept the top spot in terms of launch numbers since it arrived on the platform in 2022. That is, until last week, when Ghost of Tsushima finally arrived on PC. The ******* Punch developed game didn't quite manage to reach **** of War's heights at first, only hitting just under 58,000 concurrent players the first day after launch compared to Kratos' peak of just under 74,000 players. However, it turns out that all Ghost of Tsushima needed was a little bit of time, as over the weekend quite a few more players flocked to it, helping it reach a peak of 77,154, a good amount higher than **** of War's own record (via SteamDB). That weekend boost has dethroned **** of War's long-held record, knocking down Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered to third place too with its own peak of 66,436 concurrent players. Of course, all of this is ignoring Helldivers 2, though that one's a bit of a special case given it launched simultaneously on PlayStation and PC, whereas titles like Ghost of Tsushima, **** of War, and Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered released on PC years after their PlayStation launches. Read more View the full article
Indigo Park, the horror indie game that took YouTube by storm over the weekend, completed its funding goal for its next chapter in record time and shows no signs of stopping. Indigo Park: Chapter 1 launched on Steam on May 18, letting players try the first chapter for free. The devs wanted to raise just over $50,000 on Kickstarter to create the second chapter. As of May 20, it has smashed that goal, and the total and the amount are only getting higher as the community rushes to finance their latest horror fix. View the full article
Even with one of the industry’s best anti-cheat systems, VALORANT isn’t exactly free of hackers. While Riot Vanguard manages to punish most offenders in the tactical shooter, the community isn’t satisfied with its nonchalance by letting those fueling the practice—players who pay to get boosted by cheaters—run free. On May 19, a player shared their concerning experience against an ****** Jett who dropped 54 ****** with 97 percent headshots in a ranked VALORANT game. Interestingly, while the cheating was “obvious,” they noted the cheater was grouping up with four other players not just once, but regularly. View the full article
The League of Legends developers often ship patches that don’t produce the best results. The same applies to Draven, whose win rate has plummeted seven percent after Riot Games nerfed his passive—and players aren’t happy. The Glorious ************ has seen better days in League. His 53.25 percent win rate in Diamond descended to 46.39 percent in just four days, according to stats site Lolalytics. View the full article
A Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 player has pointed out an important detail about the M16 ******** rifle in multiplayer, sparking a mix of excitement and debate among fans. In a recent update, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 added the new M16 function to its multiplayer mode. This marks a significant change to the *******'s traditional three-round burst ***** mechanism. Fans are expressing mixed reactions, with some celebrating the new addition while others debate its impact on gameplay balance. View the full article
This week on RPS: secret plans and clever tricks. Also, a bunch of new videogames, none of them particularly Enormous or Crocodilian. We open on Monday 20th May with the extremely Alice B-friendly combo of Little-Known Galaxy, aka Stardew Valley meets Star Trek, and A Tower Full Of Cats, a hidden object puzzler featuring a tower full of dogs, I mean cats. All very upbeat. Well, hold that thought, because on the 21st, it's time for Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, another slice of Celtic sort-of-psychosis from Ninja Theory, which is as grim as the accompanying Paper Trail is *checks Nic's review* incredibly annoying? Read more View the full article
It's hard to understate how much the biggest ****** in all of gaming is time. It doesn't matter if it's a fast-action arcade game needing cutting-edge reflexes or a turn-based RPG, the biggest trick is always going to be time management. In an action title this is obvious, seeing as it's your reflexes against theirs plus a knowledge that needs to be ingrained on a near-instinctual level as to how long the powerful fancy skills take to ********, but even with all the time in the world in a turn-based game it's still a matter of dispatching the ****** in the fewest moves so they have less opportunity to inflict damage. Some games go out of their way to make this obvious, like SuperHot's "time moves when you do" mechanic or the Mysterious Dungeon games where everyone's turn happens simultaneously. Enter the Chronosphere is a little more Mysterious Dungeon than SuperHot, but borrows far more from the action-roguelike genre than turn-based RPG. View the full article
Australia’s biggest FGC celebration is back with a bang as Battle Arena Melbourne (BAM) shapes up for its return in late May, complete with a massive lineup of titles, huge prizes, and qualification to one of the world’s biggest tournaments at the Esports World Cup later this year. A staple of the *********** FGC calendar, BAM14 makes a move to the Moonee Valley Racecourse for 2024 and will play host to thousands of competitors across nearly 50 tourneys. BAM14 runs from May 31 to June 2 and will also feature seating for spectators, room for the more casual gamers to play, an Artist Alley for creators, and more. View the full article
Wesp, who you may know as the heroic modder behind the unofficial patch for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, has been on an uploading spree, providing us with a bunch of lost Bloodlines footage via his YouTube channel... Read more.View the full article
Everyone knows Call of Duty doesn’t shy away from crossovers that, on paper, seem a bit too out-there, but Bandai Namco’s Gundam mid-season collaboration has certainly turned heads—and fans are hungry to see what the anime-shooter event has in store. Bandai Namco announced the Season Four crossover between Gundam and CoD on X (formerly Twitter) on May 20, with Activision confirming the impending CoD collab shortly after. Not much was revealed in the 10-second clip: A Gundam mecha suit’s shadow can be seen projected onto the side of a building seemingly set in Japan, with neon lights flashing while the Gundam looks around the vicinity. View the full article
Irrational's Freedom Force games celebrated the Silver Age of comics in all its goofy glory, with a cast of characters including a time-traveling ****** called Microwave and a witch named Alchemiss. Capes evokes a later, more serious era: the Bronze Age of the 1970s and '80s, after Stan Lee ditched the Comics Code Authority's seal of approval to publish a Spider-Man story about drugs. It was a time when superhero stories became grittier, more political, and often dystopian... Read more.View the full article
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Assassins Creed Valhalla continues the welcome series trend of providing players with a large variety of weapons to choose from, ensuring multiple play styles are viable in its large open world. The lands of Valhalla, from the British Isles to Norway, are littered with weapons aplenty, ranging from swiftly maneuverable swords to damage-dealing flails. Some weapons in Valhalla, however, stand out among the pack. View the full article
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League of Legends‘ Mid-Season Invitational has come and gone for 2024, but many fans will struggle to forget the action that unfolded over the past few weeks. Many are even proclaiming this MSI the best of all time, chiefly due to the format change. This year’s edition introduced the very highly-requested double-elimination playoffs for the tournament and this, combined with a faster turnaround between each series and the removal of as many “civil war” matchups between regions, made for a much better viewing experience. Fans on the League subreddit pointed out last year’s World Championships had seven best-of-fives over three weeks, while MSI cranked out 14 full series in 12 days. “Double elim is superior but the best difference is the lack of downtime,” they said, adding hype for Worlds was ******* thanks to the format’s week-long wait between matches. View the full article
If you’re looking to purchase the infamous Tusks of Mannoroth or Garrosh Heirloom weapons in WoW Remix, Bronze alone won’t cut it. To purchase these coveted items, you’ll also need Bones of Mannoroth alongside the hefty sum of Bronze.This guide covers what Bones of Mannoroth are in WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria, how they work, and how to spend them on those juicy Garrosh-themed goodies. Do you think Mannoroth himself minds? Table of ContentsHow to get Bones of Mannoroth in WoW Remix: MoPDo Bones of Mannoroth drop in LFR?How to buy Tusks of Mannoroth and SoO Heirlooms with Bones of MannorothAll Tusks of Mannoroth vendor items: How to get Bones of Mannoroth in WoW Remix: MoPIn World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria, Bones of Mannoroth are earned by defeating Garrosh Hellscream in the Siege of Orgimmar Raid on Normal difficulty or above.Bones of Mannoroth have a 100% drop rate from Garrosh for all players in the Raid...View the full article
While it may not be the most popular game in the franchise, Fallout 76 has picked up some steam since the premiere of Prime Video's Fallout series. The game has certainly improved since a problematic launch, but it still pales in comparison to other entries. While there is some fun to be had, specifically for those who enjoy multiplayer, there are some mechanics that undeniably weigh the game down. View the full article
We talk about viewership a lot in esports because it’s one of the many ways we can gauge an event or esports’s popularity, and it’s safe to say the 2024 Mid-Season Invitational this year was a real banger. In 2023, MSI only saw an average of 802,561 viewers across the mid-year League of Legends tournament. In contrast, MSI 2024 averaged 1,013,790 viewers, which is an incredible improvement for the Riot Games series and a testament to how successful the MSI format changes—best-of-threes into best-of-fives—have been. It was so good that viewership hit an all-time high, with over 2.8 million fans tuning in at its peak. View the full article
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It seems 2024 truly is the year of Wayland on the Linux desktop huh? Even Canonical are now planning to have it by default for NVIDIA for Ubuntu 24.10. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article